Ignazio Silone Quotes

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

Ignazio Silone

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Ignazio Silone

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Ignazio Silone

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

Ignazio Silone

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

Ignazio Silone

But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.

Ignazio Silone